How scans work

A scan is a run of Onsomble’s discoverability check. It takes every active prompt in your Prompt Library, sends each one to every enabled model, captures the full responses, and analyses them: who was mentioned, how prominently, in what tone, and citing which sources. Each prompt-model-region combination is one unit of work in the run. More prompts, more models, and more regions mean a bigger, richer scan, and a longer run.

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What a scan produces

When a scan completes, it refreshes every page under Insights for the Site:

• The Overview headline: visibility, share of voice, and sentiment at a glance
• The Brand Scorecard trend lines against competitors
• Narrative, References, Prompt Results, and Region Exploration detail views
• Fresh Recommendations based on what changed

While a scan is running, the insights pages show a progress banner. Results appear as soon as the run finishes.

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The four configuration surfaces

Everything a scan does is controlled from the Scan Settings group in the Site’s sidebar. Each page is covered in its own guide: Configuration changes save to the Site’s active scan configuration and take effect from the next run. They don’t alter past results, so your history stays comparable.

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Scans and your plan

Your plan shapes how much scanning you can do:

• Your first scan is free on every account: it runs during onboarding with no card required.
• Scan size: how many prompts and models each scan can cover: is governed by plan entitlements. Where you’re at a limit, the app offers an upgrade rather than a hard stop.
• Recurring schedules are available on paid plans; see Schedule.

See Plans and entitlements for how entitlements work.

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What’s next